22:1 The burden of the valley of vision. What ails you now, that you are wholly gone up to the housetops?

22:2 You that are full of shouting, a tumultuous city, a joyous town; your slain are not slain with the sword, neither are they dead in battle.

22:3 All your rulers fled away together, they were bound by the archers; all who were found of you were bound together; they fled afar off.

22:4 Therefore said I, Look away from me, I will weep bitterly; don`t labor to comfort me for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

22:5 For it is a day of confusion, and of treading down, and of perplexity, from the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts, in the valley of vision; a breaking down of the walls, and a crying to the mountains.

22:6 Elam bore the quiver, with chariots of men [and] horsemen; and Kir uncovered the shield.

22:7 It happened that your choicest valleys were full of chariots, and the horsemen set themselves in array at the gate.

22:8 He took away the covering of Judah; and you did look in that day to the armor in the house of the forest.

22:9 You saw the breaches of the city of David, that they were many; and you gathered together the waters of the lower pool;

22:10 and you numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and you broke down the houses to fortify the wall;

22:11 you made also a reservoir between the two walls for the water of the old pool. But you didn`t look to him who had done this, neither had you respect to him who purposed it long ago.

22:12 In that day did the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts, call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:

22:13 and behold, joy and gladness, killing oxen and killing sheep, eating flesh and drinking wine: let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we shall die.

22:14 Yahweh of Hosts revealed himself in my ears, Surely this iniquity shall not be forgiven you until you die, says the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts.

22:15 Thus says the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts, Go, get you to this treasurer, even to Shebna, who is over the house, [and say],

22:16 What do you here? and whom has you here, that you have hewed you out here a tomb? Cutting him out a tomb on high, chiseling a habitation for himself in the rock!"

22:17 Behold, Yahweh, like a [strong] man, will hurl you away violently; yes, he will wrap you up closely.

22:18 He will surely wind you round and round, [and toss you] like a ball into a large country; there shall you die, and there shall be the chariots of your glory, you shame of your lord`s house.

22:19 I will thrust you from your office; and from your station shall you be pulled down.

22:20 It shall happen in that day, that I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah:

22:21 and I will cloth him with your robe, and strengthen him with your belt, and I will commit your government into his hand; and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah.

22:22 The key of the house of David will I lay on his shoulder; and he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open.

22:23 I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place; and he shall be for a throne of glory to his father`s house.

22:24 They shall hang on him all the glory of his father`s house, the offspring and the issue, every small vessel, from the cups even to all the pitchers.